Greater Madison WI Real Estate Blog

Dear Buyer: Keeping Your House in your Heart Dear Buyer, During the home inspection yesterday (and it was going very well indeed!), you and your husband measured a space for the new couch you had picked out. Katie!  You didn't buy a new couch did you? Well, not yet. . . Sorry, I did not mean to ...

Even More Connections from Brentsville VA to New Glarus WI: An Essay & History of Simpler Times in America It all started (as many things do here on ActiveRain!) when I wrote a post. Karen Kruschka saw it and wrote this post, Made in America.  She began with, "Over the past weekend I read a post ...

On Veteran's Day 2010,  Here is a beautiful song honoring the many men and woman stationed around the world. There is not enough we can say but this song begins to express the thank you they deserve. Beholding Beyond Words   (with audio) I wrote this song to thank Our Troops and would behonored i...

 "Where Do Good Ideas Come From?": Fertile Environments & Connected Networks. Like ActiveRain? Yes! Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. By Steven Johnson. Riverhead; 326 pages; $26.95. Allen Lane; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk WHERE do good ideas come from? Th...

 Brrrrr, It Gets Darn Cold Here in Middleton Wisconsin; How to Keep Your Laptop Safe When it is Freezing When I am driving around from Hither to Yon, or even with  Middleton Wisconsin Real Estate missions or moving myLake Mendota Property  towards closing, I am in and out of the car pretty often....

My family embraced eithnic diversity by strong family connections with people from ethnicities other than our  own.  My extended family now includes East Indian, Filipino, Black African American and Jewish. The  ancestry on both sides of my family includes English,  Scottish and  Irish.  That fac...

Things were amazingly different for us baby Boomers than they are for kids growing up today. No video games, no computers, no cell phoning Moms  to check up on us.  We were gone entire days in the summer until dinner time.  My sister and neighbors and I played in the woods on an old dead tree cov...

Puempel's Olde Tavern is a fun tradition in New Glarus. One of the oldest buildings in the downtown area, the tavern is named for the Puempel  family, two generations of the family owned and operated it. When Otto Puempel (Hazel had already passed away) retired it seems that he had 65 years in th...

This is a close to time travel as I will ever get! The end of DayLight Savings! But if does feel different to me. Where did that extra hour come from? This is a gift-one extra hour in our busy lives. Somehow I always feel a little altered. But I have always been intrigued by this topic. I enjoyed...

There is lots of hoopla and many gala events at the National Associationof Realtors'  annual Convention. You could have met David Hasselhoff of Knight Rider fame yesterday. You can take advantage of the  live coverage and see interviews and photos of the happenings. Take note of this: An historic...